Dame
Zaha Mohammad Hadid, DBE (born 31 October 1950) is an Iraqi-British architect.
She received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004—the first woman to
do so—and the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011. Her buildings are distinctively
futuristic, characterized by the "powerful, curving forms of her elongated
structures" with "multiple perspective points and fragmented geometry
to evoke the chaos of modern life".

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Fernando Botero & Jemima Wyman

Fernando
Botero

"Fernando
Botero's distinctive style of smooth inflated shapes with unexpected shifts
in scale is today instantly recognizable. It reflects the artist's constant
search to give volume presence and reality. The parameters of proportion
in his world are innovative and almost always surprising. . Today Fernando
Botero divides his time between Paris, New York and Tuscany. His paintings,
sculptures, and drawings are exhibited and represented in museum collections
throughout the world."

Jemima Wyman

Jemima Wyman
is a contemporary artist who lives and works between Brisbane and Los
Angeles. Wyman completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts (in Visual Arts) with
Honors at the Queensland University of Technology. In 2007, she graduated
with a Master of Fine Arts from The California Institute of Arts in Los
Angeles; this study was made possible with the generous support of an
Anne and Gordon Samstag Scholarship. In 2005 CamLab was formed, a collaboration
between Wyman and Anna Mayer. Recently they participated in the Engagement
Party series at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Wyman’s individual
art practice incorporates various mediums including installation, video,
performance, photography and painting. Her most recent artworks utilize
these mediums to specifically focus on visually based resistance strategies
employed within protest culture and zones of conflict. These works aim
to explore the formal and psychological potentiality of camouflage and
masking in reference to collective identity.

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SophiaVari-Botero

"Born
in 1940 in Vari near Athens. Lives and works in Paris and Pietrasanta
in Italy Figurative at her beginnings as sculptress in 1975, Sophia Vari
gradually finds an intense plentitude in freeing herself from the subject
in order to measure herself against Time and Space. She discovers with
passion the structure of the planes, the monumental. Her forms becom tangled,
gather themselves, soar skywards, kink, unfold in extension, merge in
ease. As Greek, she refuses what is approximate and her sense of perfection
leads her to a rigour in her studies and search (her numerous journeys
incite her to). Though abstract, her sculptures keep from her original
land a certain classicism.

ep4AEDES
[Berlin] & Timo Toots [Estonia]

Kristin
Feireiss

Aedes
was founded in 1980 by Kristin Feireiss and Helga Retzer († 1984)
in Berlin-Charlottenburg as the first private architecture gallery in
Europe. In memoriam Kongresshalle Berlin was the title of the opening
exhibition, which became a groundbreaking success. In 1985 the architecture
forum Aedes West moved to the S-Bahn vaults at Savignyplatz. In 1995,
under the name of Aedes East, another branch was opened in Hackesche Höfe
in Berlin-Mitte by Kristin Feireiss together with her partner Hans-Jürgen
Commerell. Since 1996, the team is reinforced by Ulla Giesler, cultural
scientist..

Timo Toots

Timo Toots
(EE) has been producing interactive art projects that analyze, comment
on and reflect upon developments in Information Society. Memopol-2 is
a social machine that maps the visitor’s information field. When
an identification document such as a national ID card or a passport is
inserted into it, the machine starts collecting information about the
visitor from (inter)national databases and the Internet. The data is then
visualized on a large-scale custom display. People using the machine will
be remembered by their names and portraits. The Cyrillic spelling of the
installation’s name refers to George Orwell’s concept of Big
Brother from his dystopian novel 1984. Over the past decades, technology
has transformed the surveillance of society. When surfing the Internet,
paying with an ATM card or using an ID card, people leave their digital
traces everywhere. The Internet and social networks gather and provide
a great deal of personal information, and a person’s profile is
no longer constituted by his or her physical being alone. Background checks
through Internet search engines and social network sites have become routine.
Memopol-2 enables us to make a thorough background check on ourselves,
mirroring our virtual image.

ep5

Peter
Eisenmann [USA] & Alessandro Ciffo

[ITALY]

Peter
Eisenmann [Architect]

Peter
Eisenman (born August 11, 1932) is an American architect. Eisenman's professional
work is often referred to as formalist, deconstructive, late avant-garde,
late or high modernist, etc. A certain fragmenting of forms visible in
some of Eisenman's projects has been identified as characteristic of an
eclectic group of architects that were (self-)labeled as deconstructivists,
and who were featured in an exhibition by the same name at the Museum
of Modern Art. The heading also refers to the storied relationship and
collaborations between Peter Eisenman and post-structuralist thinker Jacques
Derrida.[1] Peter Eisenman's writings have pursued topics including comparative
formal analyses; the emancipation and autonomization of the discipline;
and histories of Architects including: Giuseppe Terragni, Andrea Palladio,
Le Corbusier and James Stirling. While he has been referred to as a polarizing
figure,[citation needed] such antagonistic associations are likely prompted
by Colin Rowe's 1972 criticism that the work pursues physique form of
European modernism rather than the utopian social agendas (See "Five Architects,"
(New York: Wittenborn, 1972)) or more recent accusations that Eisenman's
work is "post-humanist" (Perhaps because his references to the Renaissance
are 'merely' formal). While his apathy towards the recent "green" movement
is considered polarizing or "out-of-touch", this architect-artist (with
drawings held by major collections) was also an early advocate of computer
aided design. Eisenman employed fledgling innovators such as Greg Lynn
and Ingeborg Rocker as early as the 1989.[citation needed] Despite these
claims of polarity and autonomization, Eisenman has famously pursued dialogues
with important cultural figures internationally. These include his English
mentor Colin Rowe, the Italian historian Manfredo Tafuri, George Baird,
Fredric Jameson,[citation needed] Laurie Olin, Rosalind Krauss and Jacques
Derrida.[2] In addition to his vast literary contributions (as editor,
curator, and writer) and professional practice, Eisenman's reputation
as a critic and professor of architecture is similarly famed..

Alessandro
Ciffo [Furniture]

Born
in Biella, near Turin, in 1968, he joined the world of design and plastic
materials only in 1997. Self-teaching and self-production are the key
words of his artistic journey, based on the extreme research for the potentialities
of silicone n his one and only medium n, which is the only material capable
of fully expressing his emotions. With an outstanding technical control,
mastered through tireless experimentations and endless patience, Alessandro
creates artefacts that cannot be easily classified, as they are a crossroads
between art and design. In a riot of bright colours, vivid whites and
absolute blacks, a humble material like silicone grows to be poetry, just
like the finest chinaware, the most precious woods and marbles. Alessandro
is a blend of many characters, which are usually separate in our contemporary
world: a workman, an artist, a designer and a manufacturer who makes his
own products. Alessandro is a modern alchemist, capable of transmuting
matter into material through inventionand wit, even capable of turning
it into the setting of his projects, with the intention of arousing emotions.
His last artistic year saw Alessandro exhibitingat the Plart Museum in
Naples; his new sofa, made of air and silicone, which was presented at
the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation during Artissima, will be exhibited
for one year at the Triennale of Milan, within the show "Quali cose siamo"
("the things we are"), edited by Alessandro Mendini.

ep6

Michal Fronek
[Czeck], Joe Davis [USA]

Joe Davis
(US) is an artist, researcher and scientist who works at, among other
places, MIT’s Department of Biology. He has developed new biological art
forms and numerous uncategorizable works at the nexus of art and science.
It sounds like science fiction, but it is not. On planet Earth, sophisticated
manufacturing processes with full-fledged assembly lines have been running
in many different kinds of factories for hundreds of millions of years.
Nature evolved biological techniques for large-scale production and manufacturing
of a huge variety of specialized materials long before human beings ever
existed. Homo sapiens, in turn, have historically exploited many such
natural factories to obtain a long list of essential commodities simply
because comparable materials could not otherwise be efficiently produced.
Even today, biologically assisted methods of production are often put
to use with relatively little understanding of the underlying chemical
and molecular operations. In recent decades, science has revealed details
about some of these operations. Since nature is almost always much more
efficient than human industry, researchers are focusing on various biological
processes that can be put to work for humanity. The promise of this research
is that microbial machinery will eventually carry out many operations
now carried out by heavy industry, but with fewer resources and without
environmental pollution. Biological Radio addresses this interface of
biology and technology.

Michal Fronek

Michal Fronek
was 1966 born in Prague 1988 - 1994 studied at Prague Academy of Arts,
Architecture and Design in the Department of Architecture and Design led
by Prof. Arch. PhDr. Šípek 1990 - with Jan Nemecek founded design group
"Olgoj Chorchoj" at summer workshop of Vitra Design Museum in Weil a/R
1990 - 1993 foundation of "Artel" s. r.o., producing objects of outstanding
Czech designs of the 20th century 1999 - with Jan Nemecek co-director
of industrial design studio at Prague Academy of Arts, Architecture and
Design

ep7

Ortner
& Ortner [Vienna] & Maki Namekawa [Japan]

Prof.
Laurids Ortner, Prof. Manfred Ortner,

Laurids:
Studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien).Co-founded
the architect and artist group Haus-Rucker-Co in Vienna in 1967. Professor
at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz from 1976–87.
Since 1987, Professor of architecture at the Art Academy Düsseldorf.

Manfred:
Studied painting and art education at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
From 1971–87 Atelier Haus-Rucker-Co in Düsseldorf with Günter
Zamp Kelp and Laurids Ortner. Since 1994 Professor of Design at the architectural
school FH Potsdam.

Maki Namekawa:

Deep Space
Music brings together sound and image, music and computer animation in
a way that transforms the projection space into a setting for intimate
experiences. In it, Japanese pianist Maki Namekawa will play a program
of works by three visionary composers who are also regarded as great thinkers.
Her piano concert musically celebrates the 60th birthday of Ryuchi Sakamoto
(JP) and Philip Glass’ (US) 75th, and commemorates the 100th anniversary
of the birth of John Cage (US). Prix Ars Electronica prizewinner Canda?
?i?man (TR) and a crew from NOHlab/Plato Media Lab (TR) will contribute
an extraordinary live visualization. In order to provide Ms. Namekawa
with latitude for spontaneous improvisation, ?i?man and friends will be
working live in real time, though, in doing so, they’ll have recourse
to a repertoire of prepared graphic elements that are the outcome of an
intensive process of encounter with the respective pieces of music.

In 2008 Beate
Einen Glass & Design was established to design and produce a range of
work from glass tableware and lighting design to one-of-a-kind original
sculptures. Even though Einen produces most of the work herself, she also
pulls together master craftsmen, designers and engineers who can meet
the demands of larger projects.

Adi Hoesle

Adi Hösle:
Paint pictures at a computer without the use of your hands, keyboard or
mouse. Brain Painting lets you produce images with the conscious activity
of your brainwaves, which a brain-computer interface (BCI) and special
software translate into actual pictures. The principle is: painting by
thinking. And this opens up previously unimaginable expressive possibilities—for
example, for paraplegics. What’s behind it is a psychological research
approach in use at the University of Würzburg, which artist Adi Hoesle
(DE) has been investigating to find out which brainwaves or neuronal patterns
are best suited to creating art.

Francesca
Fabbri

Francesca
Fabbri was born in Bologna in 1963. She lives and works in Ravenna. She
studied at and was awarded a diploma from the Institute of Mosaic Art
and in 1987 graduated with 1st class honours from the Academy of Fine
Arts in Ravenna. In 1988 she founded the AKOMENA studio, a design centre
and workshop for contemporary mosaic, dedicated both to architecture and
interior design, in continuous pursuit of an aesthetic that is both disciplined
and sublime.

Andreas Salvetti
[Italy] & Seiko Mikami [Japan]

Andreas Salvetti
[Tuscany]

Born in Bozzano
Lucca in 1967, Italian sculptor and designer Andrea Salvetti studied architecture
at the University of Florence under fellow artisan Guido Cristofani. Salvetti
began his ongoing collaboration with Dilmos Milano in 1996 with the exhibition
of the aluminu-cast Monozoo chair-sculpture collection at Salone del Mobile.
Salvetti is known for designs and furniture-sculptures inspired by the
wonder of the natural world, often cast in his mediums of choice; aluminum
and bronze. He also explores the interaction between food and art, often
with interactive, edible sculptures. Notable projects from his ouevre
include L’Albero [Tree], Tronchi [Trunk], L’apparita [Apparition], and
a series of aluminum, cloud-like sculptures called Domestic Nature (2012).
He works with a variety of furniture companies, and has designed pieces
for both private residences and public spaces.

Seiko Mikami
[interview with Soichiro Mihara and speech by Andreas Broeckmann] Seiko
Mikami’s large installation “Desire of Codes” demonstrates how the boundaries
between the body of data in the virtual world and the physical body in
the real world are becoming blurred in the context of Information Society.
The nightmarish setting of this interactive work consists of three parts:
a white wall on which 90 insect feeler-like objects with build-in surveillance
cameras are mounted (Ninety Wriggling Wall Units); six giant robot arms
equipped with video cameras and laser projectors hanging from the ceiling
(Six Multi-perspective Search Arms); and a round projection surface 3.5
meters in diameter. This Compound Eye Detector Screen resembles an insect’s
multifaceted eyes. Visitors become cognizant of being in the viewfinder
of a perfect piece of surveillance machinery. Highly sensitive cameras
and microphones register the slightest movement and sounds beyond the
range of human hearing. Whatever is registered is stored in a high-performance
databank that is the actual core of “Desire of Codes.” On the large screen,
installation visitors experience the real-time projections of their own
images; these sequences are interspersed by older footage within the system
as well as images from surveillance cameras in public places worldwide.

ep10
Peggy Guggenheim & Shen Shaomin

"Philip Rylands, Peggy Guggenheim Venice

Located on Venice’s Grand Canal, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection is one
of Europe’s premier museums devoted to modern art. With masterpieces ranging
in style from Cubism and Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism, the collection
has become one of the most respected and visited cultural attractions
in Venice.

Shen Shaomin

Shen Shaomin (born China 1956) has connected art and life, craft and the
mechanical, in major sculptural installations covering themes of war,
futuristic crisis, scientific abomination and the manipulation of nature.
One of the most critically and socially aware of contemporary Chinese
artists, his works use ancient Chinese culture to comment on contemporary
ecological issues, politics and technology. In the early 2000s, Shen created
a series of imaginary, 'extinct', monstrous creatures made from bone.
In 2010 Shen has presented a hypothetical meeting of the most significant
communist leaders in history whose life-sized bodies rest in crystal coffins."

ep11
Hans Hollein & David Elliott

"Hans Hollein [Vienna]

Hans Hollein studied at the Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna, Masterclass
for Architecture Prof. C. Holzmeister, Diploma 1956; at IIT, Chicago (1958-59)
Architecture and City Planning and at the University of California, Berkeley,
College of Environmental Design, Master of Architecture (M.Arch.) 1960.
Hans Hollein was professor for Architecture at the Academy of Arts in
Düsseldorf 1967 - 1976, he was professor for Design from 1976 to 1986
and professor for Architecture from 1976 until 2002 at the University
of Applied Art in Vienna where he also acted as Dean of the Architecture
Department from 1995 to 1999. He was guest professor at the University
of California, Los Angeles, at the Yale University in New Haven and at
the Ohio State University in Columbus.

David Elliott

David Elliott (1949-) is a British-born art gallery and museum curator.
After studying history at the University of Durham, and History of Art
at the Courtauld Institute of Art Elliott worked as an exhibitions officer
at the Arts Council of Great Britain, after which he served as director
of the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford from 1976 to 1996. Elliott's programme
at Oxford included exhibitions of art from Latin America, Asia, South
Africa, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Elliott was then Director
of the Moderna Museet (Museum of Modern Art) in Stockholm from 1996 to
2001. From 1998 to 2004 he was President of CIMAM [the International Committee
of ICOM for Museums of Modern and Contemporary Art]. In the 90's he curated
a big exhibition 'Art and Power" exploring the relationship of Art
with the totalitarian regimes in Europe in the first half of the 20th
century. The exhibition was shown in various museums across the world.
Between 2001 and 2006 Elliott was the director of Tokyo's Mori Art Museum,
a large privately-endowed museum devoted to contemporary - particularly
Asian - art, architecture and design. He was recently appointed Director
of Istanbul Modern starting January 2007, a post which he resigned from
on October 16th, 2007. Elliott is Artistic Director for the 17th Biennale
of Sydney, 'THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious
Age'"

ep12
Numen For Use [Vienna] & Maison
Parisienne [Paris]

Jean-Marc
Dimanche & Florence Guillier Bernard

There
can be nothing exceptional without talent and French craftsmen are unique
in this respect, combining culture and tradition, knowledge and expertise.
Beyond the manual skill, there is a work of art; and beyond the work of
art, there are the men and women whose everyday life is steeped in the
outstanding art of rare objects and luxury materials. Imagine a company
without a catalogue, a company that does not discuss products or ranges,
a company in which every item is unique because it is made by the hand
and heart of Man. maison parisienne is that company, offering a collection
of rare objects created from the passion and expertise of a handful of
craftsmen who design and make the most outstanding and most beautiful
items possible, each in his or her own craft form. maison parisienne is
that company, discovering and rediscovering a French lifestyle, showing
audacity and contemporary design, working to pass it on and share it with
enthusiasts, the initiated, collectors of emotions and lovers of the unusual
and curious....."

Christoph Katzler [Vienna]

Sven Jonke, born 1973 in Bremen, Germany Design degree from the Study
of Design in Zagreb. Christoph Katzler, born 1968 in Vienna, Austria Design
degree from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Nikola Radeljkovic,
born 1971 in Sarajevo, Bosnien and Hercegovina Design degree from the
Study of Design Zagreb. The group was founded in 1998 and since then developed
products with Cappellini, Interlübke, Desalto, MDF Italia, Moroso, Magis,
Zanotta and others. Interiors and events are designed in close collaboration
with graphic and multimedia designers Jelenko Hercog and Toni Uroda under
the label NUMEN.

ep13
Walking Chair + Marloes Bhomer

"Walking Chair
Fidel Peugeot & Karl Emilio Pircher [Vienna]

Fidel Peugeot, born Sebastian Rudolf Baumgartner in Basel, Switzerland
began studying communications-design with Prof Armin Hofmann, Wolfgang
Weingart & Rene Pulver at the University for Design in Basel. During
his studies he has already been working as a graphic designer at the renowned
agencies GGK, WeberHodelSchmid and Stalder&Suter and toured in a couple
of bands as a musician. Next to the written word he also cultivated the
spoken: together with Karl Rottweiler he founded the Swiss label&station
Radio Glaibasel (RGB107,6) in the 80ties. After stopovers in New York
and Paris he finally came to Vienna in 1991. Here he developed the first
digitized handwritings, moreover a whole dynasty of pixelfonts for online
purposes, the Lomofonts, the “Spruce” and the “Line” for Tyler Brulée
and the Wallpaper Group amongst others. Since 2002 Fidel Peugeot has been
Linotype font-designer. Additionally Peugeot works in all fields of graphic
design, e.g. as illustrator, or as logo designer, like for the Albertina,
Vienna. 1999 Fidel Peugeot met the Italian product-designer Karl Emilio
Pircher. An immediate mutual understanding led to the establishment of
the Walking-Chair Design Studio GmbH in the heart of Vienna.

Marloes Bhomer [London-Amsterdam]

Marloes Ten Bhömer a London based Dutch product designer graduated from
the London College of Fashion & The Royal College of Art. She is considered
one of the most promising designers of her generation and has exhibited
worldwide. Most recently she was nominated for the Grand Brit Insurance
Design Award held at the Design Museum. Ten Bhömer’s shoes are both provocative
and otherworldly; Her works question our perception of functionality,
fusing art and technology to create an origami like production, working
with materials ranging from wood to polyurethane resin, tarpaulin, steel
and fiberglass. Marloes ten Bhömer is a Hussein Chalayan for the extremities.’
Wallpaper Magazine